Beware Phishing Scam (Identity Theft) Using IRS Threat

Beware Phishing Scam (Identity Theft) Using IRS Threat

Beware Phishing Scam Using IRS Threat
Fox 19 - "Previous e-card attacks and resulting infections have been slanted more toward denial of service, spam relay and virus propagation -- this one is much more dangerous to users because their financial information is at risk," Minoo Hamilton, senior

Elertz web-based broadcast battles concerns over spam and phishing
Security Park - Latest figures reveal that around 95 per cent of e-mail today is spam or phishing scams and more than 2,500 new phishing sites are created each month. Businesses are finding it increasingly hard to communicate directly with customers as inboxes

Update: Mozilla issues fix for critical flaw
Infoworld - Firefox has also come under criticism from independent researchers, including Polish vulnerability expert Michael Zalewski , regarding several other classes of vulnerabilities, some of which are related to new spoofing and phishing threats aimed

Encrypt Everything and Boost
Computerworld - Thompson says his company’s Windows-only software, LinkScanner Pro, protects people from sophisticated phishing schemes and prevents them from going to Web sites known to be unsavory. It can even determine whether unclassified sites are bad by

Online Voting Clicks in Estonia
Wired News - None of the major risks we identified (including phishing, denial of service, spyware, viruses, Trojan horses and insider attack) have technological solutions these days, which is why so many computer scientists oppose the idea of internet voting in

Shouldn't You Be Online Banking?
WNEP-TV 16 - With some precautions—a good firewall, anti-virus and a spy detection program—and a dose of common sense about phishing and fake e-mails, you’ve probably had completely secure transactions. Online banking is simply the next step from that